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Name
  
Roy Miki


Role
  
Poet

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Awards
  
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry

Books
  
Redress, Dolphin SOS, Mannequin Rising, Justice in our time, Random access file

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Roy Akira Miki, CM OBC FRSC (born October 10, 1942) is a Canadian poet and scholar.

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Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, he attended the University of Manitoba, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, where he is currently a professor emeritus. He lives in Vancouver. He is very active in the Japanese-Canadian community and has fought hard for redress from the federal government for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.

In 2006, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia.

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Poetry

  • 1991: Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988
  • 1995: Random Access File, poems
  • 2001: Surrender, winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for poetry
  • 2006: There
  • 2011: Mannequin Rising
  • Critical studies

  • 1983: The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams
  • 1990: An annotated bibliography of George Bowering
  • 1988: Tracing the Paths, a book on bpNichol
  • 2004: Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice
  • Editor

  • 1985: This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese-Canadians, 1941-1948 by Muriel Kitagawa (1985)
  • 1997: Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (1997)
  • Other

  • 1998: Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing, essays
  • References

    Roy Miki Wikipedia